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Agaw people
The Agaw ( ''Agaw''; modern ''Agew'') are an ethnic group inhabiting Ethiopia and neighboring Eritrea. They speak Agaw languages, which belong to the Cushitic branch of the Afro-Asiatic family.
==History==
The Agaw are perhaps first mentioned in the 3rd-century AD Aksumite inscription recorded by Cosmas Indicopleustes in the 6th century. The inscription refers to a people called "Athagaus" (or Athagaous), perhaps from ʿAd Agaw, meaning "sons〔Uhlig, Siegbert, ed. ''Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: A-C''. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, 2003. p. 117〕 of Agaw."〔Uhlig, Siegbert, ed. ''Encyclopaedia: A-C''. p. 142.〕 The Athagaous first turn up as one of the peoples conquered by the unknown king who inscribed the ''Monumentum Adulitanum''.〔Munro-Hay, Stuart. ''Aksum: an African Civilization of Late Antiquity'' (Edinburgh: University Press, 1991), p. 187〕 The Agaw are later mentioned in an inscription of the 4th-century Aksumite King Ezana〔 and 6th-century King Kaleb. Based on this evidence, a number of experts embrace a theory first stated by Edward Ullendorff and Carlo Conti Rossini that they are the original inhabitants of much of the northern Ethiopian highlands, and were either forced out of their original settlements or assimilated by Semitic-speaking Tigray-Tigrinya and Amhara peoples.〔Taddesse Tamrat, ''Church and State in Ethiopia (1270 - 1527)'' (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972), p. 26.〕 Cosmas Indicopleustes also noted in his ''Christian Topography'' that a major gold trade route passed through the region "Agau". The area referred to seems to be an area east of the Tekezé River and just south of the Semien Mountains, perhaps around Lake Tana.〔
They currently exist in a number of scattered enclaves, which include the Bilen in and around Keren in Eritrea; the Qemant and the Qwara, who live around Gondar in the Semien Gondar Zone of the Amhara Region, west of the Tekezé River and north of Lake Tana; a number of Agaw live south of Lake Tana, around Dangila in the Agew Awi Zone of the Amhara Region; and another group live around Sokota in the former province of Wollo, now part of the Amhara Region, along its border with the Tigray Region.
The Cushitic speaking Agaw people ruled during the Zagwe dynasty of Ethiopia from about 900 to 1270. The name of the dynasty itself comes from the Ge'ez phrase ''Ze-Agaw'' (meaning "of Agaw"), and refers to the Agaw people.
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